Staying in Charge

Karen Kaplan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2004
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-27424-7 (ISBN)

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Written with both the dying and their caretakers in mind, this helpful handbook focuses on some very difficult issues regarding the practical and spiritual concerns for those who are dying, with the intentions that they can maintain control and have their wishes heard at the end of their lives.

Practical and spiritual guidance for the seriously ill, the dying, and their caregivers A living will ...medical power of attorney ...do-not-resuscitate orders ...palliative care...In this important book that fills a real market need, Karen Kaplan and Christopher Lukas show people how to approach these and other sensitive issues. They emphasize the importance of thinking years ahead when first diagnosed and explain how to focus on what is truly important, both practically and spiritually, with the hope that those who are seriously ill can maintain control and have their wishes heard. Karen Orloff Kaplan, MPH, ScD (Washington, DC), is the President and CEO of Last Acts Partnership. Christopher Lukas (Sparkill, NY) is a television producer, director, and writer with several Emmy Awards to his credit. He is the author of Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide.

KAREN ORLOFF KAPLAN, M.P.H., Sc.D., is the President and CEO of Last Acts Partnership, a nonprofit membership organization that helps to improve care for people who are dying and raises awareness about how to obtain end-of-life care.CHRISTOPHER LUKAS, author of Silent Grief, is an Emmy-winning television producer, director, and writer who specializes in films about end-of-life decision making. He and Dr. Kaplan are the creators of the PBS program Whose Death Is It Anyway?

Introduction. 1. Why We Wrote This Book. 2. Obstacles to Good Care. 3. Thinking and Talking about Mortality. 4. Palliative Care. 5. The Facts about Hospice. 6. The ABCs of Advance Directives. 7. Choosing an Agent. 8. Being an Agent. 9. Matters of Mind and Spirit. 10. Caregivers. 11. Children and Serious Illness. 12. Nursing Homes. 13. When Crises Come. 14. DNRs and Assisted Dying. 15. Finances. 16. Give Grief a Chance. 17. Living with Dying. Suggested Reading. Resources. Acknowledgments. Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	0-471-27424-0 / 0471274240
ISBN-13	978-0-471-27424-7 / 9780471274247
Zustand	Neuware